Hilton Hanoi Opera

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Hilton Hanoi Opera, a 269 room five star luxury hotel, is located in central Hanoi, Vietnam. The USD $64 million project opened on February 26, 1999 is majority owned by Hilton Hilton International Ltd (70%) with the remaining stake held by government owned Dong Loi Tourism Co. The French colonial style of the seven story building is modeled after the architecture of the nearby Hanoi Opera House, a small scale replica of the National Opera House in Paris. The idiosyncratic name, incorporating a nearby building, was perhaps chosen to dissociate the hotel from the ironically named war prison, the Hanoi Hilton. The Hilton Hanoi Opera is located several blocks away from the prison site and has no connection to the prison.

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